I think they like capital punishment as a threat in order to get more people to settle for sentences. Particularly in California cause they love the slave labor. I don't think the gov broadly actually believes in getting rid of capital punishment more than it supports it. If anything people making gestures just indicates that opposing it in rhetoric has become useful with a more vocal opposition, while they are secure in knowing it wont be removed by authorities

 

In other, topic-related news, there's a good bit of effort being put in to deny Netanyahu and MBS may have just met.

 

https://www.btselem.org/press_relea...rime_and_paints_palestinians_as_the_offenders

 

They always do that to save face on the Saudi side.

Israel and the Saudi's have been sharing Intel on the Iranians (and before that Saddam Huessein in Iraq)since the mid 1990's but because the royal family likes to use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to distract there own populace from their own oppressive policies they cannot publically acknowledge that they do.

Its a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

didn't that guy die by beheading?

 

You really gotta narrow that down

 

i read that the guy who said it was beheaded but can't find the name. think he was a prince but cant remember.

 

The quote about the guy being beheaded, comes from Star Trek Into Darkness:

Kirk: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Spock: An Arabic proverb attributed to a prince who was betrayed and decapitated by his own subjects.
Kirk: Well, it's still a hell of a quote.

However, apparently it's first recorded in a Sanskrit text, and the writer is not thought to have been beheaded:

https://slate.com/culture/2013/05/s...my-enemy-guy-really-killed-by-his-friend.html

 

Thank you Mr. Spock

 

I worked with a guy who was a LA homicide detective for 26 years. He said they basically only ever thought of the death penalty as a bargaining chip, to say "hey plead and we'll take the death penalty off the table".

So yeah, they just use it like the thugs they are. Which is basically just as bad.

 

Jesus that is sad.

 

Here we go again.

 

And I used to think changing governments every 8 months on average was peak political instability...

 

More along the lines of parliamentary diarrhea, with a side of incontinence.

 

Meanwhile, in Israel...

 

https://electronicintifada.net/content/ireland-clings-advice-disgraced-judge-israel-trade/31986
Very upsetting. The Occupied Territories Bill must be passed and it is unforgivable for Ireland of all nations to not fight this. Gerry Adams was right when he said

 

That’s disgusting. US aid to Israel should be halted immediately upon Biden‘s first day in office until this is reversed. It should be halted anyway, but this is the perfect opportunity to punish the Netanyahu government for its horrific behavior.